🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 12, 2026) · next update tomorrow 6:00 am CDT
Ask: HAMs within 5 miles of N9TPB · Extra class operators in Madison, WI · or try N9TPB · K9* wildcards · Smith, John · 0004797601 (FRN) · 53703 · Madison, WI · old CB calls like KHC1939 or 18Q3518 (1962–63 CB call books) · (205) 546-1767 (1990s CB directory phones)
W7BWX HAM
General classlicensed since 2016 (10 yrs)W7BWX since 2020 · previously KI7BWXSpring Creek, NVGrid DN20eq15 repeaters within 50 mi
🔒 Not available — currently licensed, through Oct 27, 2030. If it isn't renewed, it opens for vanity requests Oct 28, 2032.
Held W7BWX Nov 10, 1987 → Nov 10, 1997
· first licensed Nov 10, 1987 as W7BWX
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1948 as W7BWX, before the FCC's online records
W7BWXExpiredGeneralNov 10, 1987 → Nov 10, 1997 (expired)
From the FCC amateur database as published on the QRZ! callsign CD-ROMs, 1993–2003, before and alongside the FCC's online records (which start in 1999). "Seen" dates are the first and last disc showing that record; the issue date is the FCC's, so it can be a renewal of an even older license.
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Oct 8, 1999 · 12 discs W7BWX
· General · issued Nov 10, 1987, expires Nov 10, 1997
LESTER W. PEARCE
1155 GUMMOW DR, FALLON, NV 89406
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 11, 2026 · 49 snapshots · as W7BWX
LESTER W PEARCE
1155 GUMMOW DR, FALLON, NV 89406
From scanned copies of the printed callbooks (government lists from 1913, then the Radio Amateur Callbook to 1997), read by OCR, so names and streets can carry typos. Each line is one or more editions in a row showing the same name at the same address.
1997 · 1 edition W7BWX · class G
Lester W Pearc 1 1155 Gummow Or Fallon, NV 89406 1997 p.1515
1996 · 1 edition W7BWX
G Lester Winter 1996 p.1430
1995 · 1 edition W7BWX · class G
Lester W Peare~ 1!55 Gummow R Fallon, NV 89406 1995 p.1393
1994 · 1 edition W7BWX · class G
Lester W Pearce 1155 Gummow Dr, Fallon, NV 89406 1994 p.1273
1992 · 1 edition W7BWX · class G
Lester W Peare~ 1155 Gummow R Fallon Nv 8940b 1992 p.1105
1948 · 1 edition W7BWX
Lester W. Pearce 1195 Court St., Elko, NV Fall 1948 p.171
1935 → 1938 · 3 editions W7BWX
Francis W. Bowen Lffd ., Gravely Lake Dr., 'v7ca'u-:b., . B. Ingalsbe, 8 Sugar Row, 'l\ippenish, Vash. Spring 1935 p.128, Winter 1938 p.115, Spring 1938 p.108
None · 1 edition W7BWX · class G
Lester W Pearce 1155 Gummow Dr, Fallon None p.431
Vanity Applications Filed by W7BWX
Calls this licensee has asked the FCC for, newest first, in their order of preference. The FCC processes applications 18 days after filing; "likely award" is our estimate from every pending application in filing order.
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W7BWX in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W7BWX beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.